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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"embedded clauses"”.
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The comprehension of main and embedded clauses
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, 1998.
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The Syntax of Temporal Interpretation in Embedded Clauses
In this thesis I argue that verbs in embedded clauses are temporally interpreted by being bound to the temporal arguments of AspP and VP in the matrix clause. I build up this claim by proposing that (i) Reichenbach’s relation of association can be expressed in terms of Binding Theory in the syntax, …
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The Syntax of Temporal Interpretation in Embedded Clauses
In this thesis I argue that verbs in embedded clauses are temporally interpreted by being bound to the temporal arguments of AspP and VP in the matrix clause. I build up this claim by proposing that (i) Reichenbach’s relation of association can be expressed in terms of Binding Theory in the syntax, …
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Acquisition of the T and C system in clausal complements
… C(omplementizer) system, finite and nonfinite embedded clauses produced by children in the CHILDES database were studied. It was discovered that young children often delete to in nonfinite embedded clauses, and that they use that in the C position of finite imbedded clauses far less often than …
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Input och output : ordföljd i svenska barns huvudsatser och bisatser
… investigates the word order in the main and embedded clauses of four Swedish monolingual children, covering the age range 1;3–4;0. Using a generative framework, a quantitative and qualitative analysis focusing on the syntax of verb placement and complementizers is presented. Chapters 1 to 4 …
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Word Order in Old Catalan
… database of 2,000 syntactically parsed main and embedded clauses was produced, the Llibre dels Fets del Rey en Jacme (LFRJ) database. Verb position is studied in terms of linear verb positions and their frequencies, in regard to predicate types, in relation to adverb position, clitic placement, …
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Anatomy of an Attitude
… questions: (i) what kinds of meanings can tensed embedded clauses have? (ii) how are they integrated into the argument structure of verbs? (ii) why does their distribution sometimes depend not only on the argument structure, but on the embedding environment as well? Chapter 1 provides a brief …
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Differences Between Full and Reduced Relative Clauses
… since they did not generalize to the center-embedded clauses tested here. The findings also raise the possibility that other effects may have been attributed to clause structure in previous experiments.
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A System for Natural Language Unmarked Clausal Transformations in Text-to-Text Applications
A system is proposed which separates clauses from complex sentences into simpler stand-alone sentences. This is useful as an initial step on raw text, where the resulting processed text may be fed into text-to-text applications such as Automatic Summarization, Question Answering, and Machine …
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An event restriction interval theory of tense
… ERI Theory to present an analysis of independent clauses as well as embedded clauses of various types. One of the positive aspects of ERI Theory is that it offers a purely semantic analysis of the sequence of tense phenomena which occur in the latter. Also, a pragmatic component is presented which …
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The effects of verb bias, context and tasks on mandarin Chinese reflexives
… objects, but after a verb that usually takes embedded clauses, no preference was observed. For complex reflexive taziji which is thought to co-refer more to the local antecedent, it is found that local antecedents were indeed preferred, but only for verbs that take embedded clauses. After …
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A Relational Grammar approach to Kera syntax
… or subject.</p> <p>"In cases of matrix and embedded clauses sharing a nominal, Kera uses either pronoun replacers, "erasure" of the downstairs relation, or equi-subject clause union, depending upon the matrix verb and the relations of the shared nominal.</p> <p>"A small number of verbs have …
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Syntactic variation in Afrikaans : an empirical study
… firstly, changes from XV to VX in subordinate clauses are explored by looking at the use of specific types of subordinate clauses, and the impact of matrix clause bridge verbs on complementizer omission and dependent/independent word order in the speech corpora. Secondly, the study examines the …
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Uniformity of pronoun case errors in typical development: the association between children's first person and third person case errors in a longitudinal study
… found in input, in which subject pronouns in embedded clauses are standardly assigned object case (e.g., Let me do it; Kirjavainen et al., 2009; Pine et al., 2005). Previous literature had not established whether the same children who make first person errors (i.e., me or my used for I) also …
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Comprehension of Spanish relative and passive clauses by early bilinguals and second language learners
… syntax in Spanish, namely passive and relative clauses, by early English-Spanish bilinguals, also known as heritage language (HL) learners, and by second language (L2) learners. To contribute to current theoretical debates on the role of input and age in L2 and bilingual language acquisition, …